Not necessarily, how to choose, this may have to be a combination of factors. You have to refer to the actual situation and the thoughts of your spouse and children.
If my spouse is supportive or I don't have to think about him, I would choose to live by myself when I can take care of myself. I would also agree to live with my children if they need my help with housework or babysitting. But try to live on your own as much as possible, because living with your children will inevitably lead to conflicts and clashes over time due to differences in living habits, thinking, etc.
If my health is not good and I can't take care of myself, I would choose to live in a nursing home because I only have one child, and he is busy with his own work and family, so he definitely doesn't have as much time and energy to take care of me, so I can't burden my child at this time.
Chinese tradition is still family pension, but the burden of the only child is too heavy to face the four old people on both sides of the couple, who still have to work, live and raise their own children, and surely don't have so much time and energy to take care of both old people.
Nowadays more and more old people choose not to live with their children, but as they grow older and their health deteriorates, they also find it difficult to take care of themselves.
So, China's elderly care needs to be vigorously developed, with the arrival of the aging society, the number of public nursing homes is extremely limited, it is said that the good condition of the public nursing home a bed to wait for many years, but also expensive, and the private on the life of those who can not take care of their own charges are not low, if the poor financial ability, can afford to live is also a problem.
The state should strengthen the care for the elderly, so that everyone can have a good old age.